Man arrested at Pa. courthouse is charged with stealing files from Reed Smith

A visitor to a Pennsylvania courthouse was arrested Wednesday after authorities said he behaved in an unusual manner, falsely claimed to be both a law firm intern and an intern for a local judge and was determined to have stolen civil case files from a major law firm in his possession.

A criminal complaint says Josh Aaron Dowell-Miller, 19, told sheriff’s deputies at the Allegheny County Courthouse in Pittsburgh that he stole the files from Reed Smith while at the law firm for an internship interview, WTAE reports.

“Deputies then learned that Dowell-Miller had recently been at this firm under false pretenses during the same time period that the files became missing and was escorted from the building,” said the sheriff’s office in a written statement provided to the station.